Closing the Gap – A Better Way to Connect Bible and Practice – Regulative or Normative?

David Robertson takes a look at different approaches and principles of worship. He addresses some caricature (of both main views) and analyses a supposed ‘third way’ mooted by Tony Payne. I think it is a helpful one.

Its you. Hi. You’re the problem. It’s you.

This one looks at where conflicts come from. We tend to think the problem is out there but this one challenges that assumption.

Individualism and the churches

There are chunks of this I don’t agree with at all. However, I think the main idea – the central focus on the way individualism has impacted churches – is a legitimate and right one that needs to be heeded. I don’t quite see all the applications the same way, but the central point is a good one.

Is Christianity a threat to society?

Al Gooderham say yes, but not in the way some might think.

A new and rising liberalism

You may or may not agree with all the signs that Aaron Prelock outlines in this one, but it is hard to deny that there is a new Modern Liberalism that is less theological and more ethically driven.

Will Phoebe have Down’s Syndrome in Heaven?

This is an old one re-shared by Paul Levy. It is short, sweet, helpful and without question true.

From the archive: Five key questions to ask of your church polity

‘It is often said that ecclesiology is the Cinderella of theology. Nobody really cares until something goes badly wrong and we suddenly realise the key questions we should have been asking when we first planted our church have never really been asked. At a minimum, go and get some credible, biblical answers to the five questions above. Do it before it is too late. The church is too precious, and the Lord’s people far too valuable, to let it slide.’